This Week in Google 579

 Pixel 5 Event, Amazon Echo Event, Taco Bell Quarterly

• Google's Pixel 5 event disappoints
• Sonos sues Google for multi-room audio patent infringement
• Google TV: available yesterday!
• Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are pretty ok.
• Hold For Me is the killer app for the Pixel 5
• Pixel 4a 5G should have been called Pixel 5a
• The new Google TV doesn't work with Stadia. WTF?
• Nest Audio is a speaker that exists
• Google turns 22. Yay.
• Comparing Leo and Jeff's schnozzes
• Pixel 5 camera features look nice
• When the heck is the DOJ going to sue Google?
• Google is so mad at Australia they hired a comedian to talk about busses and restaurants
• Farmville will finally die at the end of the year
• 40 Bit Gaming is a cool newsletter for older gamers
• You can play Myst in VR now. Ant's all like, "What is Myst?"
• Facebook stops pretending that Instagram and WhatsApp are separate things
• Leo explains why you shouldn't get a contractor to do your home wifi, and why you shouldn't do it yourself
• Amazon's 2020 hardware event: Flying cam, car cam, ball Echo
• That time Stacey broke her nose
• Staceysplaining Amazon Sidewalk
• The new Echo devices have an AZ1 Machine learning chip
• Amazon's new car alarm will warn you when you are towed
• Amazon's flying security cam brings the moral panic
• Robots that hang from the ceiling like bats
• Ransomware Coffeepot
• Wyze is our favorite smart stuff maker
• Excerpts from the new Taco Bell Quarterly
• Stacey is mad about hard Topo Chico
• Starlink Internet helps Washington firefighters
• perma.cc is Harvard Library's way to save websites forever
• Amazon One wants to know your palm

 

• Stacey's Thing: Cloudflare Radar
• Jeff's Number: @jack donates $10m to Kendi's anti-racism center
• Ant's Stuff: Get The Photographer's thought process behind popular photos

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Links

• Our newest lineup of helpful devices
• Google announces Pixel 5 with wide-angle lens, 8GB RAM for $699 on October 15th
• Google Pixel 4a 5G officially launches w/ 5G connectivity, $499 price
• Google announces Nest Audio
• Google Play Movies & TV is now Google TV but it’s not the same Google TV that runs on Android TV on the new Chromecast, it’s an
• The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch
• Google celebrates 22nd birthday, together but from a distance
• Google enlists comedian to battle Australian legislation
• Sonos sues Google for infringing five more wireless audio patents - The Verge
• Facebook is melding its mega apps together: Inside 'interop'
• Amazon’s 2020 hardware event: all of the news and announcements
• Amazon's device day was really about the data - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
• Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house - The Verge
• Ring's Mailbox Sensor lets you know if someone's messing with your mail - CNET
• Amazon Sidewalk is coming to your neighborhood. Here's what that means - CNET
• Fitbit & EU -- it's about ads
• ROBOTS!!!! That hang from the ceiling! Like bats!
• Coffee makers are demanding a ransom
• Chatroom talking about Wyze headphones